Category Archives: Publishing

History of the Present

Posted on February 15, 2011 by stuartelden

A new journal launched – details here. Thanks to Steve Legg for the link. History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor.  Its aim is twofold:  to create a space in which scholars can … Continue reading →

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New SUNY Press catalogue

Posted on February 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Find it here. Reading Kant’s Geography is on p. 23.

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Prevent and Tame – open access book

Posted on February 2, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just been told by one of the editors of a book that is available as an open-access pdf. Entitled Prevent and Tame: Protest under (Self)Control, it’s a collection of essays on social movements, power and resistance, and opposition. The … Continue reading →

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Transparency in refereeing

Posted on January 26, 2011 by stuartelden

A interesting proposal here, trading on here. Accepted, refereed papers and books should be accompanied with the name of the referees and, ideally, their reports, if only, in the online edition. (Note rejections can still be done anonymously.) I hope … Continue reading →

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Journals and rejections

Posted on January 24, 2011 by stuartelden

This is pretty good – the Journal of Universal Rejection: “You name it, we take it, and reject it”. Not to be confused with journals that only publish rejected work, such as Rejecta Mathematica…

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Roundup – PhDs, Connolly, Banning Books, Congratulations

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton has begun a new series of advice posts, this time on ‘How to Plan a PhD’. Will be interesting to see this one develop. Adrian Ivakhiv reports his first thoughts on William Connolly’s … Continue reading →

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Electronic publishing

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

At In the Middle, Jeffery Jerome Cohen offers some thoughts on e-books and access. He raises the idea of short pamphlets for sale at $1-3 through Google books or Amazon. If they can’t host them themselves, and genuinely need that … Continue reading →

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A monumental project

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

[update 5th April 2012 – more details here] The latest newsletter of the Association of American Geographers has a piece by Doug Richardson on a new project –  the tentatively titled International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. … Continue reading →

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Paul Ashton of re.press on publishing

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

This was posted as a comment, but since these don’t show up in readers etc. unless you subscribe specifically to comments, I will post it here. Hi Stuart, I might take this opportunity to write a few comments in an … Continue reading →

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Harman on Writing

Posted on January 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Really interesting piece here from Graham Harman on writing. I’m firmly of the view that academics don’t talk enough about the mechanics of writing, and that they only way that we can work out practices that work best for us … Continue reading →

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